Celebrate bonfire night – An Autumn Bucket List Update

Last Updated on 14 September 2023 by Colette

Last year Ben and Chloe didn’t want to go to a bonfire, so this year we didn’t really make any plans to.  I didn’t think they’d want to go.  More fool me.  Unfortunately they both announced that they quite fancied going to a bonfire a bit too late for me to arrange anything.  I did have a quick look around for a local organised event but we had missed one and the other was a bit too big for my liking – and also far too late on a school night.

In the end we made do with some sparklers in the back garden and a promise of a proper organised bonfire next year when Amy is a bit bigger and everyone can cope a bit better with staying up late!

I took loads of pictures of Ben and Chloe with their sparklers . . . but can’t find them!  I think I might have deleted them by mistake.  Fail.

Ben and Chloe had watched some fireworks at school during the day – I think this a lovely but slightly odd thing to do!  Their school do it each year but I don’t quite see the point of fireworks during the day?  That said they do seem to find it exciting.  Ben came home and told me all about how we celebrate bonfire night “because a man called Guy tried to blow up the king!”

So I guess we celebrated bonfire night in our own way but next year we’ll definitely do a better job!

Our Autumn Bucket List so far:

1. Watch Chloe start Nursery 03.09.14
2. See Ben settle into his Year 1 class & new childcare arrangements  23.10.14
3. Enjoy some Mummy & Amy time
4. Family Day at York races (we missed it last year for the first time since Ben was born) 07.09.14
5. Collect conkers – this was a massive fail last year so we need to try again! – We failed!
6. Move into the extension & host an extension warming party!
7. Attend Harvest Festival at school 03.10.14
8. Start Chloe’s swimming lessons
9. Start dance lessons for Ben
10. Depending on the state of our garden I’d like to plant some bulbs for Spring!
11. Kick leaves – a standard Autumn activity of course! 27.10.14
12. Splash in puddles – obviously!
13. Enjoy getting wrapped up in jumpers and hats
14. Celebrate bonfire night 05.11.14
15. Make soup
16. Blow dragon breath
17. Stop breastfeeding 19.09.14
18. Get back to work two days a week
19. Autumn crafts
20. Celebrate Amy’s 1st birthday (did I really just write that?)
21. Keep going on that long hard “Wedding Weight” slog